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Following the hurricane. doctors on the ship expect the problems they encountered a come from elderly in the heat. away from their medicines and dialysis. >> here in puerto rico, mosquito borne diseases. >> this ship can reach any part of the coast in under eight hours. they don't need a port. flight deck carries two helicopters. what looked like lifeboats on the rail are floating ambulance ambulances. intended for combat support, the staff trying to prevent a health crisis in puerto rico could treat upwards of 200 patients. >> it's rewarding to do this. this is what we are all here fo for. >>...

The administration has parsed that word combat. the fact is they will be in combat. we saw that even with the advance on kunduz a couple weeks ago that you had forward deployed u.s. advisers calling in air strikes, including that horrible air strikes that hit the hospital there in kunduz. they're not directly on the firing line as it were, but they're very close to the front lines. plus they have combat support. you and i have been to a lot of combat zones. it's not just a training area. >> did the president say how he felt about this decision? >> he was asked if he was disappointed. he said h...

Forces, pushes them back. it's interesting here. the president calls this a counterterror operation against al qaeda particularly. remember, when kunduz fell, you had u.s. troops there helping to call in air strikes. in fact, as you remember, you had an american air strike that hit the msf hospital there. it is not just a counterterror operation. you still have u.s. troops doing combat support for afghan forces because afghan forces on their own haven't been able to fight back taliban. there's fudging there. the president said all major combat operations have stopped. that's true, major has st...

And make whatever adjustments seem necessary at the time. this was our advice to the president for what would be sufficient and good basis for planning for 2017. >> the president today talked about the end of the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan. does that mean the that the u.s. military will no longer provide combat support to the afghan forces, such as the airstrikes in kunduz a few weeks ago? >> it's not a part of the mission on a day-to-day basis to engage in combat. our mission on a day-to-day basis is, and will continue to be, first of all, counterterrorism operations such as, for exam...

Necessary at that time. but this is our best guess and certainly was our advice to the president for what would be sufficient and a good basis for planning for 2017. >> mr. secretary, the president has already talked about the end of the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan. does that mean that the u.s. military will no longer provide combat support to the afghan forces such as the air strikes in kunduz a few weeks ago? >> it's not a part of the mission on a day-to-day basis to engage in combat. our mission on a day-to-day basis is and will continue to be, first of all, counterterrorism operatio...